In yet another instance of victim blaming, vice president of BJP in Haryana, Ramveer Bhatti, blamed the victim in the Chandigarh stalking case for driving “so late in the night”. According to CNN-News18, Bhatti said, “The girl should not have gone out at 12 in the night. Why was she[Read More…]
An IAS officer in Haryana took to Facebook to post about his own daughter’s ordeal who was almost kidnapped by two men. The IAS officers’ daughter, a DJ by profession, was stalked and nearly kidnapped by two men including a son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala. The officer, in[Read More…]
Vikas Barala, son of Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president, Subhash Barala, has been arrested on Saturday for stalking the daughter of an IAS officer. The girl alleged that two men had chased her in their Tata Safari late on Friday night. On the basis of the complaint filed[Read More…]
After being rendered jobless, around 160 semi-naked sanitation workers, carried out a protest march on Wednesday, demanding restoration of their jobs in Faridabad. The protest comes after Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) handed over maintenance of certain sectors to the municipal corporation. The protest started outside the municipal corporation office and[Read More…]
Cow owners in Haryana may soon have the option of sending their animals to a ‘hostel’ if they don’t have enough space at home. The Haryana ‘Gau Sewa Aayog,’ an independent body constituted by the state government in 2013, will soon sends its proposal of setting up “cow hostels” across[Read More…]
The court of additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ), Narinder Kaur in Rohtak has stayed the proceedings against yoga guru, Ramdev in the ‘beheading remark’ case of 2016. The case is going on in the lower court of additional civil judicial magistrate (ACJM), Harish Goyal. The court of ACJM has[Read More…]
Frowned over not having a male child in the family, a woman allegedly burnt private parts of her four-year-old granddaughter. The incident is said to have happened 10 days ago in Mojukhera village near Ding town in Haryana’s Sirsa district but came to light on Friday after the district child[Read More…]
A man carried body of his nine-year-old granddaughter on his shoulder after being denied treatment at the civil hospital and no ambulance was given to them by the hospital administration. As per the police spokesperson, the grandfather of Lakshmi brought her to Badshah Khan hospital on Saturday morning. But doctors[Read More…]
Soon after textile traders strike in Gujarat showcased agitation against GST, nearly 1,100 plywood units, including plyboard and peeling factories, across Haryana, have decided to go on an indefinite strike from Friday. Notably, Yamunanagar, one of Asia’s largest timber markets home to 1,000 units alone. Scores of plywood units in[Read More…]
Shocking incidents of imposing ‘nationalism’, in this case on Muslims resurfaced from Haryana‘s Hisar district. In two separate incidents, two persons were allegedly harassed for not saying ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’. While communal terror is on the rise, tension gripped Hisar on Tuesday evening after an unidentified person allegedly slapped[Read More…]
In a horrifying incident, a 35-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in Sohna, Haryana on Monday. The crime is reported to have lasted several hours. According to the woman, three men in a Maruti Swift car kidnapped her on Monday morning in Sohna area of Gurgaon. They drove around on the[Read More…]
On Friday, a nationwide stir has been started by the farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan where they are blocking national highways as a part of their protest. The farmers have gathered in order to protest against the death of five cultivators in police firing in Madhya Pradesh and also against[Read More…]
On Wednesday, a Rohtak court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against yoga guru, Ramdev, for his controversial “beheading” remark made last year. The Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Rohtak (ACJM), Harish Goyal, had issued a bailable warrant and summons against the yoga guru earlier, for his remarks “for[Read More…]
In a recent development, the Haryana Chapter of Forum for Awareness of National Security (FANS) will organise campaigns in the universities to raise awareness on national security issues among the youth. A meeting was held, in which it was decided to organise campaigns keeping in mind the current situation. Read[Read More…]
Over 450 retail and wholesale cloth merchants in Haryana are against the GST proposed on clothes by the government. According to the merchants, the new tax slab on clothes will escalate the cost of clothes for customers and they fear a slowdown in the cloth trade after the imposition of[Read More…]
With the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime from July 1, the tax waiver to films by the Haryana government will be a thing of past. However, if the state waives tax on a movie, it will not only lose its own share of the GST, but will[Read More…]
Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, warned on Monday that the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) would become a national problem if the final judgement goes against Punjab. He said that the construction of SYL canal to provide water to neighbouring Haryana could lead to the revival of militancy in[Read More…]
Three men allegedly raped a 23-year old woman in Gurgaon and killed her eight-month-old daughter by throwing her off from a moving auto-rickshaw, alleged the victim. The woman filed gang-rape charges on Monday, six days after the incident happened on 29th May. According to the police reports, the child died[Read More…]
On Monday, former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and UPSC member Chattar Singh were questioned by the CBI for their alleged connection irregularities in the allotment of 14 industrial plots in Panchkula. Singh was the principal secretary to the Chief Minister when the allotment took place. Singh has been asked[Read More…]
Gurugram may turn into a “living hell” due to the explosive urbanisation stretching the city’s resources to the limit, said The Centre for Science and Environment. Necessary steps must be taken to make its growth model more sustainable. The observation presented by the centre is a part of a report[Read More…]
A gau-rakshak on Thursday stabbed a student in Sonipat, mistaking him for a journalist, after the latter refused to click his photograph. The teenager, identified as Shivam, was participating in a protest organised by the Gau Rakshak Seva Dal against cow slaughtering in Kerala last week, said SHO (Gohana) Kuldeep[Read More…]
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit Haryana on Friday morning. Its tremors were felt in Delhi and other parts of northern India. According to the Meteorological department, the epicentre of the quake was Rohtak district in Haryana. The department also said that the depth of[Read More…]
While addressing the gathering at the 30th convocation ceremony of Kurukshetra University, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that there are a number of similarities, and certain differences between Indian MNC, Infosys and the militant Islamist group, Al-Qaeda. He said that people of both the organisations function for the society, but[Read More…]
Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana has allotted prime land in Gurugram to its own organisational unit, in wake of the land allotment to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) in the state. In October 2016, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had allotted 4,000 sq metre (one acre) plot for[Read More…]
The 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather successfully underwent an abortion and is doing better now. She was discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak on Monday. The minor has been rehabilitated to a Child Care Institution (CCI) in Bahadurgarh by[Read More…]